BARACCHI, Claudia

Visiting Professor

claudia.baracchi@unimib.it

Brief Biography

Claudia Baracchi is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Università di Milano-Bicocca. Previously she held positions at the University of Oregon (1996-98) and the New School for Social Research (1999-2009). She is the author of, among others: Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato’s Republic (2002) Aristotle’s Ethics as First Philosophy (2008), L’architettura dell’umano (2014), Il cosmo della Bildung (with R. Rizzi, 2016), Filosofia antica e vita effimera: Migrazioni, trasmigrazioni e laboratori della psiche (2020), Friendship: The Future of an Ancient Gift (2023), Aristotele: Il pensiero e l’animale (2023). She edited The Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle (2014). Her research focuses on ancient philosophy (also in relation to Eastern traditions and archaic thinking), psychoanalysis, philosophy of art, philosophy and theater. She is a practicing analyst in Milano.

Research Interests

  1. Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy (with particular focus on the relation between classical and pre-classical Greek thought and Eastern traditions, especially Indo-Vedic)
  2. Psychoanalysis
  3. Continental Philosophy (French, German, Italian)
  4. Philosophy of Art
  5. Philosophy and Theater

Selected Publications

Recent books:

  1. Aristotele. Il pensiero e l’animale (Milano: Feltrinelli, 2023).
  2. Friendship: The Future of an Ancient Gift (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2023). 
  3. Note sul Bene e sull’Uno tra Platone e Aristotele (Pistoia: Petite Plaisance, 2023).

 

Recent articles/chapters:

  1. “Self-less Action: Reiner Schürmann and Meister Eckhart,” Philosophy Today 68.4 (forthcoming Fall 2024).
  2. “Drifting to the Periphery of the Ancient Greek World: On Images, Visions, and Dreams,” Research in Phenomenology 54.1 (2024) 31-51.
  3. “On Peace (Dimly Lit),” in Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Michael Marder and Giovanni Tusa (Cambridge, Mass.: The Massachussetts Institute of Technology, 2024) 207-212.
  4. “The Sky, from Below: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Orientation of the Gaze,” in Heidegger and Classical Thought, ed. by Aaron Turner (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2024) 293-320.
  5. “Plato’s Phaedrus: Transgression and the Subject of Love,” in Plato’s Phaedrus: Eros, Philosophy, and the Mysteries, ed. by Andrzej Serafin (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).
  6. “After a Certain Posture: Dennis Schmidt and the ‘Ethical Struggle,’” Research in Phenomenology 53.2 (2023) 234-254.
  7. “Il grande prigioniero. Libertà, limite e i confini della psyche,” in Eranos-Jahrbuch 75/2019-2020-2021 (2023) 823-842.
  8. “Places of Pain: Heidegger’s Reading of Trakl,” in Heidegger and Literary Studies, ed. by Andrew Benjamin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023) 185-213.